“A lot of ballads are about the mistakes we inevitably make while trying to figure out how to live our lives.”
“I mean, we have to read books or we'll make mistakes. If we read stories of how other people lived, we can figure out better ways to live. I mean we can look at other people's lives and not make the same mistakes they made. Or we can, like, use their examples as models for ourselves.”
“Maybe learning to be human was about learning to live in pain, not trying to figure out how to live pain-free. (156)”
“we’re allowed to make a lot of mistakes in our lives, except the mistake that destroy us”
“Our lives are not measured by the mistakes we make, but by the moments we live.”
“We figure out what death means when we’re born, practically, and we live our whole lives in some kind of weird denial about it.”